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Architectural Wit: Le Corbusier And The Use Of Visual Analogy And Metaphor, Bruce Abbey
Architectural Wit: Le Corbusier And The Use Of Visual Analogy And Metaphor, Bruce Abbey
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
"The ability to see the world of ideas in visual terms and as a method equivalent to literary poetics distinguishes the work of Le Corbusier from other architects of his generation." A detailed description of his use of visual metaphor and analogy has been difficult to find in the critical literature. This article explains Le Corbusier's use of visual analogy and metaphor.
Traditional Arts Of The Rancher And Cowboy, Laurie Hamilton, Susannah Evans
Traditional Arts Of The Rancher And Cowboy, Laurie Hamilton, Susannah Evans
Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal
At first, it may be somewhat perplexing to put art and the rancher or cowboy in the same sentence. But, if you ask a rancher about his personal “gear,” he will readily show you his treasured tools: the favorite saddle, his boots, the weathered lariat, the bit, the spurs, the chaps, and the buckles. All these objects provide their value first through function, and second, through expression of personal style.
A Conductor's Insight Into Performance And Interpretive Issues In Give Us This Day By David Maslanka, Lauren Denney Wright
A Conductor's Insight Into Performance And Interpretive Issues In Give Us This Day By David Maslanka, Lauren Denney Wright
Open Access Dissertations
The purpose of this essay is to provide performance and interpretive background and suggestions for David Maslanka's Give Us This Day. This essay serves as the first significant research document on the work and is intended as a source for musicians seeking information about the work. The essay includes a biography of David Maslanka, as well as descriptions of the history and commissioning of Give Us This Day, its compositional process, and its performance and interpretive issues. Information was accumulated through interviews with David Maslanka, Gary D. Green, director of bands at the University of Miami, and the consortium head, …
The Journey From Inception To Performance Of A Twenty-First Century Cello Concerto: Deep Heaves The Ocean Black... By Aaron Travers, Ashley Marie Garritson
The Journey From Inception To Performance Of A Twenty-First Century Cello Concerto: Deep Heaves The Ocean Black... By Aaron Travers, Ashley Marie Garritson
Open Access Dissertations
The successful performance practice of new music is the result of an understanding of, dedication to, and thorough preparation of the music of today’s composers. The purpose of this study is to explore the selection process, commissioning process, preparation process, and performance of a Twenty-First Century cello concerto with wind ensemble by notable composer Aaron Travers. This essay features my perspective as the cellist, directly involved in premiering Deep heaves the Ocean black…, a concerto written for me and the University of Miami Frost Wind Ensemble, commissioned by Gary D. Green and the University of Miami Frost School of Music. …
Lilian Westcott Hale And Nancy Hale: From Victorian To Modern In Art And Text, Norah Hardin Lind
Lilian Westcott Hale And Nancy Hale: From Victorian To Modern In Art And Text, Norah Hardin Lind
Theses and Dissertations
Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963) and her daughter Nancy Hale (1908-1988) built successful careers during a period of transition in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential cultural factors which occurred during the early twentieth century like urbanization and world war. This interdisciplinary analysis of Lilian Hale‘s artwork and Nancy Hale‘s writings demonstrates the imprint of the surrounding world on their work. Lilian Hale‘s art is influenced by her Victorian childhood, and Nancy Hale‘s fiction reveals many conflicts of the modern era. The study of …
The Modernity Of Khomiakov, Paul Valliere
The Modernity Of Khomiakov, Paul Valliere
Paul Valliere
In the case of Khomiakov and the other Russian religious philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, identifying the traditional element is a difficult task for a reason which becomes more obvious as one becomes better acquainted with their work: Khomiakov and the other Russian religious philosophers were not traditional thinkers.
Confronting Oppression Not Enhancing Functioning: The Role Of Social Workers Within Postmodern Practice, Phillip Dybicz
Confronting Oppression Not Enhancing Functioning: The Role Of Social Workers Within Postmodern Practice, Phillip Dybicz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This article represents a philosophical hermeneutic endeavor to explore the meaning of oppression as it expresses itself within social work practices based in both modern and postmodern thought. Practices based within the Modern Discourse, drawing from an authority base of scientific expertise, exhibit a disconnect between the goal of enhancing functioning and social work values and concerns such as confronting oppression; this disconnect must be bridged by the social worker. Practices based within the Postmodern Discourse are founded upon the notion of confronting oppressive narratives as their main goal; social work values are an essential component in this process.
Making A "Black Beverly Hills": The Struggle For Housing Equality In Modern Los Angeles, Jennifer Mandel
Making A "Black Beverly Hills": The Struggle For Housing Equality In Modern Los Angeles, Jennifer Mandel
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the black struggle for housing equality through mid-twentieth century Los Angeles, California. Alongside the rise of Los Angeles as a major metropolitan center, residential discrimination became embedded in the fabric of the city and African Americans found themselves forced to live on the increasingly run down Eastside. In response, a number of middle- and upper-class blacks led a campaign against housing discrimination by migrating to the Westside. While they were accused of abandoning low-income blacks and adopting white norms, affluent blacks defied racial restrictive covenants, endured white intimidation, and pursued lawsuits in an effort to live in …
The Electrical Performance Of Modern Compact Fluorescent Lamps, Sean T. Elphick, Philip Ciufo, Sarath Perera
The Electrical Performance Of Modern Compact Fluorescent Lamps, Sean T. Elphick, Philip Ciufo, Sarath Perera
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) are highly non-linear devices which are likely to experience very high growth in penetration levels, especially in domestic environments, in Australia over the next 2 – 3 years. This will occur due to the decision taken by the Australian Federal Government to ban the sale of incandescent light globes after 2009 as measures towards meeting the needs for demand side management and climate change abatement. While CFL technology has been in existence since the late 1980s penetration levels are now increasing to a point where the total CFL load cannot be considered negligible compared to other …
Pirates Ahoy! The Modern Pirate Menace Off The Horn Of Africa, Clive H. Schofield
Pirates Ahoy! The Modern Pirate Menace Off The Horn Of Africa, Clive H. Schofield
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
Pirates ahoy! A line from the script of a Hollywood cutlass-and-buried-treasure blockbuster? Not quite, especially as far as the waters off the Horn of Africa are concerned in recent years. Pirates have long held the status of romantic and daring figures in the popular imagination, thanks in no small part to novels such as Stevenson’s Treasure Island and the swashbuckling films of Errol Flynn and company. More recently Johnny Depp, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame, also has a lot to answer for. However, piracy presents a serious modern day menace to the mariner.
Surrealist Castle Culture: Gothic Traces In Surrealist Aesthetics, Claire Elizabeth Feagan
Surrealist Castle Culture: Gothic Traces In Surrealist Aesthetics, Claire Elizabeth Feagan
Digitized Theses
This thesis examines the relationship between Surrealism and the Gothic novel. To date, few studies have examined why the Gothic novel appealed to the Surrealist sensibility. In particular, the neo-Gothic referents in Surrealist visual art have been largely ignored. The clearest connection between Surrealism and the Gothic novel is found within Surrealist leader André Breton's essay “Limits Not Frontiers of Surrealism” (1936). In this text the “castle problem” is introduced. Briefly put, Breton urged the Surrealists to find a modern equivalent to the Gothic castle; a place where marvellous events were bound to occur. It appears that the Surrealists never …
Realist Painting And Its Relationship To My Creative Practice, Xuning Wang
Realist Painting And Its Relationship To My Creative Practice, Xuning Wang
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis examines the realist art movement from its origins in France in the 1840s to its development in China in the 20th century and its impact on the author as an artist. The thesis reviews the development of realism in France, and traces its impact on Chinese conceptions of realism in the 20th century. The contemporary debates surrounding realism in China are examined and contextualised within the recent history of realism in China. Finally the thesis looks at the impact of realism on the author’s creative practice and a case is argued for the development of realist ideas in …